I am a Wicklow-based multidisciplinary artist. Working primarily in sculptural installation, my current practice investigates architecture's role in our perception of space, amidst technological confidence and alienation of society. My work aims to create a sensory experience whilst stimulating a philosophical investigation. Working with raw, crude materials like rusted steel, I create unfamiliar, yet familiar forms to evoke a sense of utopian landscapes, playing between abstraction and the concrete. ‘Aedificium Ad Infinitum’ is an installation that examines the existential consequences to the progression of science and technology of architectural spaces. The work references high-modernist principles which centralises top-down and short-sighted ideals into urban planning. The sculptures form embodies this ‘centralised’ theme in architecture by suggesting omnipotent pervasiveness, thus challenging that the ethics of science and technology is establishing a moralistic, and idealistic order. The work is analogous to Jorge Luis Borges' story of ‘The Aleph’ whereby a hypothetical point in space encompasses all other points of the known universe. These two references inspired the sculptures form, which intends to mimic these grandiose structures, while investigating the ethical concerns of utopian ideas and our ontological experience.
